From the Delta Foundation to Dick Dale, and police videos to GOP-debate bingo cards, here’s where you spent your time on our website

1. At 78 and with myriad health issues, surf-rock legend Dick Dale plays through the pain

In a July interview, musician Dick Dale told City Paper editor Charlie Deitch that he continues touring so that he can pay for his medical bills. “I can’t stop touring because I will die,” he said. Dale has suffered rectal cancer twice, and is currently in renal failure and living with diabetes.

2. Arrests in Downtown Pittsburgh T station lead to confrontation with officers, onlookers

In December, the local Police Citizen Review Board opened an inquiry into the behavior of Pittsburgh police officer Nicholas Papa. During a chaotic scene that unfolded outside of the Wood Street T Station on Liberty Avenue, City Paper staff writer Ryan Deto recorded the officer yelling at him and others who were uninvolved. The scene escalated after one juvenile was arrested for allegedly resisting arrest after hitting an emergency-stop button on the Wood Street T station escalator. One adult was also arrested, and police issued criminal citations to three other juveniles. PCRB Executive Director Beth Pittinger called the officer’s behavior “excruciatingly unbecoming.”

In June, members of Pittsburgh’s LGBT community took to social media, protesting Delta’s choice of Iggy Azalea, not only because they viewed her past statements as racist and homophobic, but also because of Delta’s lack of diversity, they said. “The Iggy Azalea thing was just a last straw for folks. Since Delta took [Pride] over, it’s been a white, cis gay man’s event,” said Michael David Battle, an African-American member of the Pittsburgh’s LGBT community. In response, Battle and others formed Roots Pride Pittsburgh, a series of events geared toward trans people of color, for the same weekend as PrideFest.

5. Jessica Hawkins breaks the law every time she gives her child her medical cannabis in Pa. and she has no intention of stopping

In a June feature, City Paper described the day-to-day struggles of a Pittsburgh family whose 10-year-old daughter, Antania, suffers from Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that causes her to experience hundreds of seizures a day. After trying more than 20 FDA-approved medications that proved ineffective, the family traveled to Colorado in search of medical cannabis oil. “For the first time, she didn’t have any seizures for four days. She got up out of her wheelchair and walked for the first time without falling,” Anatania’s mother, Jessica Hawkins, told CP.